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Friday, October 11, 2013

Thanks for sharing with us on the details and it's good to
know the issue has been fixed.

Although we deliver a project based on best
practice and experiences from past projects, but every project has different
situations, hereby we implement user pilot stage to discover and fix potential
issues, during the pilot stage of our project, we worked with your team covered
as many scenarios as possible, that is very important for the sanity of
the deployment and I believe there haven’t been too much outstanding issues in
past months. However, to be very frankly, the concurrency of external
user wasn’t included, from a methodology point of view, such hidden
issues normally will be further discovered and fixed during the gradually
production rolling out, either my team or technical support team will
help on this along the way.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Let me tell you something. Sometimes in IT you're stuck with an unenviable task of scripting mass changes to AD, you've got the starting point - the requirements and the objects that need to be changed, you have somehow managed to extract the data required to be changed. Now you need to eye-ball both spread sheets line by line to make sure you can produce the script that will update the required attributes.

Symptoms:
Using robocopy, you will be able to copy folders from source location to destination location (folders will be created). However, files within the source folder will fail to copy.

Common errors:1. ERROR : You do not have the Manage Auditing user right.2. ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory -instead-path-here- Access is denied.

Required Permissions:

To use the robocopy /COPYALL switch on a DC, at minimum, user account MUST BE in "Builtin\Administrators" group.

THIS CAN'T BE AVOIDED. Ref URL #4 below - "UAC operates under a dual token method where even if you have the right to have elevated access, until you request it via UAC its not provided. Once requested its a new process."

Tried to minimize security access with credentials "Builtin\Server Operators" (able to open an elevated command prompt but UAC will prompt for password) and "Builtin\Backup Operators"
However, with these credentials, during the copy process, the folders will be created successfully but files inside folders, you will hit error #2 mentioned above.

Required NTFS Permissions

1. Source location, at least read access to the files and folders
2. Destination location, "full control" to files and folders (If not you may have
3. If your destination folder is in a root folder, ie, D:\ or E:\, you will need to
3.1. Disable inheritance
3.2 Grant full control to the user that is used to run the robocopy scheduled task script

Monday, April 1, 2013

"Error: You don't have permission to execute this command" - Append sudo to command line
"Error: Failed to add users" - Make sure your username parameter has a double "\". Note the red "\" . It is NOT a typo.

This is a frustrating problem. Don't understand why in my company's production systems, the standard VMware installation instructions don't work.

I had no issues on my home lab. (hair pulling)

You configure the new hostname using the instructions from the vMA user guide, configuration is done through the web interface on port 5480 and/or directly from the VM console, and/or from a SSH session.

The moment you reboot the system, it reverts back to localhost.localdomain. It does not matter if you initiate the reboot from the web interface on port 5480 or from a shell session.

Anyhow, to fix this problem, create an "A" record on the AD DNS server, then from shell run "sudo -i" (this will drop you into a root session (text color will change to red), then run Suse's network configuration utility "system-config-network-tui"